Friday, May 20, 2016

An Introduction To The Everfi K-12 Critical Skills Courses At North Reading High School



On Wednesday, May 18th the North Reading High School Business Department met with the Jessica Donovan from Everfi to review the variety of open source, online educational resources related to Financial Literacy, STEM Readiness, Diversity & Inclusion and Health & Wellness.

The benefits of a platform like Everfi is that it streamlines content delivery of students. Students have videos, assessments and lessons that can challenge their knowledge in these topics. For teachers, they can modify their current curriculum to add components they think are relevant to their courses. Additionally, teachers can utilize the multimedia videos to support topics or assign specific modules as homework in a flipped classroom scenario in which student complete a majority of work outside of class and participate in discussion-based work with the teacher.

Components Of The Everfi Financial Literacy Curriculum


In our session, the business department reviewed the Financial Literacy curriculum and viewed the variety of multimedia, lessons, and topics that are covered. Students can be added to courses through a class code and participate at their own pace. 

Additionally, we reviewed the Entrepreneurship course which Everfi offers as well. This course challenged students to define themselves as business owners and help them define their strategies for success and self-assess their skills. 

We look forward to utilizing these resources as we continue to expand course materials and opportunities for student learning. We also appreciate Jessica taking the time to discuss this great resource with us and look forward to taking the next steps with students.